Use Performance and Troubleshooting Tools

Question 1

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System information

Question 2

Answer 2

Event viewer

Question 3

Answer 3

task manager

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Answer 4

Using Task Manager to manage users.

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Answer 5

resource monitor

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Answer 6

performance monitor

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Answer 7

system config

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Answer 8

System Configuration Utility—Boot tab.

Question 9

System Information (msinfo32.exe)

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the tool produces an inventory of system resources, firmware and OS versions, driver file locations, environment variables, network status, and so on.

Question 10

Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc)

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is a management console snap-in for viewing
and managing logs on a Windows host

Question 11

Event Viewer

Windows Logs folder contains

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• System log-hardware/network/driver
• Application log-app installers, etc.
• Security log
• Setup log-during installation of Win

Question 12

Applications and Services Logs

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troubleshooting a particular Windows feature,
service, or third-party application.

Question 13

Event Viewer

Event Sources and Severity Levels

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• Critical
• Error
• Warning
• Information
• Audit Success/Failure

Question 14

Task Manager (taskmgr.exe)

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is a Windows utility that lets you monitor and manage your computer’s applications and processes.

Question 15

Task Manager

Performance tab

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provides more information about the CPU, memory, disk, network, and graphics processing unit (GPU) subsystems

Question 16

Task Manager

App History tab

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shows usage information for Windows Store apps.

Question 17

Task Manager

Memory Monitoring

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• In use-RAM
• Committed reports-memory requested
• Cached-
• Paged pool and non-paged pool-OS kernel and driver usage

Question 18

pagefile

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When RAM is full, less-used data is moved to the pagefile

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cache

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temporarily store frequently accessed data for quicker retrieval

Question 20

Task Manager

Ethernet/wifi tab

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network adaptor, signal strength, IP address, etc.

Question 22

Task Manager

Users tab

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lets you see the people who are logged on (and allows you to send them a message or sign them out)

Question 23

task manager

Startup tab

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lists all the programs that automatically start when Windows starts/boot time.

Question 24

Task manager

Services tab

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displays a list of background services running on your computer, allowing you to start, stop, or restart them for troubleshooting purposes.

Question 25

# Task manager Services (services.msc)

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is a Windows application that allows users to manage the settings of background processes and apps.

Question 26

Resource Monitor (resmon.exe)

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You can see graphs of resource performance along with key statistics, such as threads started by a process or hard page faults/second.

Question 27

Performance Monitor (perfmon.msc)

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used to provide real-time charts of system resources or can be used to log information to a file for long-term analysis.

Question 28

Performance Monitor

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track and analyze system performance in real-time, CPU usage, memory consumption, disk activity, network traffic, and more.

Question 29

System Configuration Utility (msconfig.exe)

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is used to modify various settings and files that affect the way the computer boots and loads Windows.

Question 30

# System Config Boot Configuration Data (BCD)

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Boot tab lets you configure basic settings

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# system config Services tab

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lets you choose specifically which services are configured to run at startup.

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# System Config. General Tab

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allows you to configure the startup mode

Question 33

# System Config. Tools Tab

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contains shortcuts to various administrative utilities, including System Information, Registry Editor, Performance Monitor.